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CVE-2015-8839
Published: May 2, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577
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